The Musical Book Tag!

Hey, young bloods! Today I'm going to be doing the Musical Book Tag because I am musical trash and also a book nerd but mainly musical trash.

WICKED: FAVORITE FICTIONAL FRIENDSHIP

Oh my God. Nobby Nobs and Sergeant Colon from Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett are absolutely brilliant. (They appear in other novels as well, but GG is their first appearance.) They're two ultra lazy cops - one (Nobs) who is probably more criminal than cop, and the other (Colon) who runs away from any crime he sees. Their relationship has a sweet and funny mix of sentimental and humorous moments, and honestly how anyone can live without them in their life is beyond me.

SWEENEY TODD: FAVORITE VILLAIN

100% Aeduan from Truthwitch. HE'S SUCH A SMOL SWEET BEAN I WANT HIM TO WIN EVERYTHING.

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: FAVORITE LOVE TRIANGLE

Love triangles are a guilty pleasure of mine, not gonna lie. Emily-Joseph-Sean from Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell is one I'm particularly invested in - Emily's a forward-thinking, bloomer-sporting nurse in Victorian England, and Joseph Becker and Sean Ryan are both police officers at Scotland Yard.

(In case you were wondering, I'm 100% rooting for Sean.)

THE LION KING: FAVORITE SIDEKICK

*AGGRESSIVELY FLAILS AND SCREAMS* GASPODE THE WONDER DOG.

It has come to my attention that I have not discussed Gaspode enough on this blog. Therefore, this is Gaspode, the world's most amazingly sarcastic talking terrier:

And these are some things he's said:

Bonus:

GREASE: LEAST FAVORITE ENDING

Definitely Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick. The ending was both depressing - there's no indication that Leonard's situation will improve - and awkward - the way it was written, leaving off on such an abrupt note, left me searching for more.

MATILDA: FAVORITE BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTION

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, hands down. Whereas I despised the book - it bored me to no end and took a couple tries to get through - the movie was one of my favorites of all time.

LES MISÉRABLES: FAVORITE CHARACTER DEATH

SARUMAN. Is it bad that I like Sauron more than him?? While reading The Return of the King, my biggest fear was not that Frodo or Sam might die, but that Saruman might live.

I TAG

Anyone at all who wants to do this! Feel free to add/change up what musicals are used if you want :)

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Let's chat! Who are your favorite villains? Sidekicks? What book to movie adaptions do you think were done well and which ones failed miserably? Comment below, and remember that you are all very beautiful pickles <3

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Oh my god, I am SUCH music trash. Don't even get me started. But I recently started rereading Harry Potter again for the first time in nearly a decade and while reading the first one especially I kept noticing how similar the film was to the book, and it definitely made me appreciate how well done the HP movies are. Loved this tag, Ellie!

He makes cameo appearances throughout the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, but his first appearance (and the only one where he's a protagonist) is in Moving Pictures. Although it's the tenth book in the series, it's a stand-alone, so you can read it without having read any of the others. It's about the emergence of Hollywood in an alternate fantasy universe. Aside from Gaspode, the book itself isn't that great, but still!!! Gaspode!!!!

Ikr, and thank you!Gaspode makes cameo appearances throughout the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, but his first appearance (and the only one where he's a protagonist) is in Moving Pictures. Although it's the tenth book in the series, it's a stand-alone, so you can read it without having read any of the others. It's about the emergence of Hollywood in an alternate fantasy universe. Aside from Gaspode, the book itself isn't that great, but still!!! Gaspode!!!!(It's also definitely an adult book that has a lot of mature themes + language, though, so depending on your age/your parents' rules on such things you might not want to read it for a while.)